Wishbone Ash
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Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 21 February 1976
IT IS NOW ten months since Wishbone Ash packed up their troubles and settled in the USA, choosing a spot in Westport, Connecticut, that is ...
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Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages audio, February 1980
Andy Powell, Martin Turner and Laurie Wisefield discuss playing older Ash material onstage; moving to America, and then coming back; the U.S. influence on their music; management problems, and the impact of New Wave.
File format: mp3; file size: 12mb, interview length: 13' 05" sound quality: *****
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Wishbone Ash: Colston Hall, Bristol
Live Review by James Johnson, Sounds, 19 June 1971
THERE IS NO doubt about it, over the last six months Wishbone Ash have developed into one of the finest loud, fast, rock bands currently ...
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 7 August 1971
STEVE UPTON of Wishbone Ash. What sort of audience did he think the band had? ...
Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 2 October 1971
WELL, AS you may have guessed, a lot of us have fallen in love with this little band, and there are a load of reasons ...
Mountain, Wishbone Ash: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 20 November 1971
WISHBONE ASH are without a doubt one of our finest new bands — they make good albums, and their ever-increasing following is loyal. However, at ...
Wishbone Ash: A Surge of Greatness
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, December 1971
Wishbone may seem to have suddenly emerged as this year's brightest hope but as with all overnight success it's been a hard slog. The wrong ...
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 13 Fall 1971
JOHN PEEL: "I heard Wishbone Ash for the first time, and haven't been so impressed with a relatively new band for a long time. Their ...
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 6 May 1972
WISHBONE ASH are one of the nation's better bands. In the search for constant improvement, they have come up with a third album that many ...
Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 13 May 1972
Maybe if you're young enough, from a dreary home environment with nothing but a soul destroying future, then maybe you could enjoy a festival like ...
Review by Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 17 August 1972
OF THE SCADS of similarities between Wishbone Ash and Yes, the most trivial and accidental (and so most interesting) is the fact that both groups ...
Top of the Polls with Twin Guitars
Interview by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, May 1973
ROCK WRITERS have a thing about genealogy. I don’t know who’s fault it is but I’m always reading about second generation bands and third generation ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, June 1974
ANDY POWELL, TED TURNER, and Martin Turner form the front instrumental line of England’s Wishbone Ash, a quartet (rounded out with Steve Upton on drums) ...
Szymczyk's the name, producing's the game
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 2 November 1974
If you've got albums by the Eagles, Joe Walsh, James Gang, J. Geils Band, Wishbone Ash or B.B. King then you should know who Barbara ...
Wishbone Ash: Hometown Rubdown
Interview by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 5 December 1974
"IT'S GOING to be very weird going home to England, very weird," observes a suntanned, squinty-eyed Martin Turner. Wishbone Ash has been down here for ...
Wishbone Ash: Long Beach Arena
Live Review by Steven Rosen, Sounds, April 1976
THE LONG BEACH ARENA, usually a noisy and vibrant auditorium for rock music, was just that Friday night when Paris, Wishbone Ash and Bachman Turner ...
Wishbone Ash: Return Of The Kings
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 23 October 1976
Inside this otherwise quiet house in sleepy Connecticut WISHBONE ASH toil to produce the album that will return them to favour with the critics and ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 30 October 1976
After deserting their homeland to live in the States, they're back — but they've not been forgotten… ...
Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 6 November 1976
EVEN IN their basement studio during the formulative stages of recording New England, this album sounded good. Rough mixes of the album sounded good in ...
Wishbone Ash: Fairfield Halls, Croydon
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 6 November 1976
"I SAW A band today that will give you guys a scare," someone told Andy Powell in the dressing room after a triumphant concert at ...
Wishbone Ash: New England (MCA)
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 13 November 1976
Andy Powell (guitars, mandolin and vocals), Laurie Wisefield (guitars and vocals), Martin Turner (bass and lead vocals), Steve Upton (drums). Recorded at Mart's Place, Laureledge, ...
Wishbone Ash: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 29 October 1977
WHATEVER YOUR tastes in music, there's one thing you can never argue about. Audience reaction. A hall full of standing rock fans, clapping their hands ...
Report by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 12 November 1977
TIM LOTT takes off with THE MOTORS ...
Review by Robert Sandall, Q, December 1987
ANDY POWELL AND Ted Turner's duelling guitars made this a band to be reckoned with 15 years ago – and gave Miles Copeland his first ...
Wishbone Ash: Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Live Review by Colin Harper, The Independent, 10 February 1998
THERE WAS A TIME, as schoolboys of certain vintage will doubtless recall, when knowing the line-up details of the more venerable British rock bands really ...
A Tribute to Heroes! Ashbone U Wish do Wishbone Ash
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Rock's Backpages, 10 May 2002
I WILL NOT feign objectivity. When Wishbone Ash dissolved in 1977 because of the usual "creative differences" (Nigel and Steve wanted to be creative, while ...
Interview by Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 2013
IT WAS 1971 when Wishbone Ash, touring in America as opening act for The Who, got news that two music magazines back home in England ...
Prog-Rock Legends Wishbone Ash: Nostalgia "Not the Whole Story"
Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 23 April 2014
ONE OF THE greatest prog-rock albums ever, Wishbone Ash's 1972 epic Argus also remains the English band's best-known and definitive sonic statement. ...
"We'll retire at 106. What else can we do?" The rockers who won't call it a day
Report and Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 18 August 2015
From Suzi Quatro to Saxon's Biff Byford, rock's pioneers have been making music for more than 40 years. Here they talk about leather jumpsuits, performing ...
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